ABHIMANYU MITHUN

Half-centuries from Abhimanyu Mithun and R Samarth helped Karnataka end the second day of their Ranji Trophy 2014-15 semifinal against Mumbai in a virtually impregnable position at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. On Thursday (February 26), Karnataka set their opponents a massive 445-run target for a place in the...

New Delhi: Karnataka reaffirmed their status as the giants of domestic cricket outclassing Railways by 136 runs to record their third successive outright victory in this year's Ranji Trophy Cricket Tournament.
Such has been the dominance of the Ranji champions that they are now on 18 points from three games with...

New Delhi: Robin Uthappa and Karun Nair scored sublime fifties to put defending champions Karnataka in a commanding position against Railways on day three of the fog-hit Ranji Trophy Group A match on Tuesday.
Railways, resuming the day at 106 for four, were all out for 171 against a high-quality Karnataka...

Kolkata: Bengal's premier batsman Manoj Tiwary, who is one of India's 30 probables for the World Cup, had a close shave after being hit by an Abhimanyu Mithun rising delivery on the final day of his team's Ranji Trophy cricket match against Karnataka at the Eden Gardens on Wednesday.
It was...

Ahmedabad: Abhimanyu Mithun's brilliant bowling at death enabled defending champions Karnataka to edge out Bengal by six runs in a thrilling semi-final of the National One Day Championship for the Vijay Hazare Trophy, here on Sunday.
Karnataka will meet Punjab in the final scheduled on Tuesday.
Batting first, Karnataka scored a respectable...

Secunderabad: Manish Pandey smashed a quickfire unbeaten century before pacer Abhimanyu Mithun scalped four wickets to guide Karnataka to a comfortable 104- run win over Tamil Nadu in a South Zone leg match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Monday.
Coming on to bat a No. 4, Pandey scored an...

They swept everything that came in their way. Sunday completed a success story of Tsunamic proportions for Karnataka that did an Inter Milan, not with the haughtiness of a Jose Mourinho but with a yeoman-like service from each member of its squad that brought home the Ranji Trophy, Irani Cup...

Bangalore: Karnataka inflicted a crushing six-wicket defeat on Andhra Pradesh in the south zone leg of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Thursday.
An allround performance ensured an easy victory for Karnataka as their batsmen and bowlers fired in unison to force Andhra concede the match easily at the Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Andhra, sent...

Catch all the action from Ranji Trophy 201314 final being played at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad.
Day 1 roundup: A gutsy unbeaten 89 by middleorder batsman Ankit Bawne and a halfcentury by opener Chirag Khurana helped Maharashtra reach a respectable 272 for 5 at stumps on day one.
Opting...

High on confidence following their fairytale run this season, underdogs Maharashtra would be eyeing to break their 72year title jinx when they take on favourites Karanataka in the summit clash of the Ranji Trophy.
Maharashtra won the Ranji Trophy twice but both the titles came in the preIndependence era in 193940...

Hyderabad: High on confidence following their fairytale run this season, underdogs Maharashtra would be eyeing to break their 72year title jinx when they take on favourites Karanataka in the summit clash of the Ranji Trophy on Wednesday.
Maharashtra won the Ranji Trophy twice but both the titles came in the preIndependence...

Bangalore: Seamers Abhimanyu Mithun and R Vinay Kumar wreaked havoc as Karnataka reduced Uttar Pradesh to 221 for 9, giving themselves a good chance to grab first innings lead, on the second day of the Ranji Trophy quarterfinal match on Thursday.
Mithun was the most successful bowler with figures of 4...

Bangalore: Hosts Karnataka will look to garner maximum points by going for a win when they take on Gujarat, currently placed second on points table, in a Group A Ranji Trophy match, starting here on Thursday.
Karnataka walked away with three points courtesy first innings lead against Jharkhand in Mysore and...

Chennai: An incisive spell of seam bowling by Karnataka's Abhimanyu Mithun helped South Zone reduce Central Zone to 123 for 5 on a raincurtailed first day of the Duleep Trophy semifinal on Thursday.
Only 50.2 overs of play was possible on the day with Uttar Pradesh's beefy lefthander Mukul Dagar scoring...

New Delhi: Karnataka medium pacer R Vinay Kumar was on Tuesday ruled out of the Twenty20 series against England due to a strained right calf muscle, paving the way for state mate Abhimanyu Mithun's return to the Indian squad.
Kumar will be out of action for two weeks, BCCI secretary Sanjay...

Canberra: Indian seamer R Vinay Kumar doesn't want to dwell on too much on what his chances of making it to the playing XI for the first Test against Australia are, and would rather concentrate on sticking to the basics.
Vinay and Abhimanyu Mithun will be in content_cnion for third seamer's...

Canberra: The Indian bowling failed to make much of an impression as Cricket Australia Chairman's XI dominated the opening day of their twoday practice match, making 3986 declared at the Manuka Oval on Thursday.
Regular skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni opted against playing the match and Rahul Dravid took over the captaincy...

India innings:
47th over: West Indies win! Ravi Rampaul does it again for West Indies, this time with the bat. The paceman takes four Indian wickets, including the last one of Abhimanyu Mithun to give his team a 16run win.
A Mithun lbw b Rampaul 23 (16b)
44th over: Rohit goes and with...

Cuttack: Praveen Kumar's injury is worse than initially feared, and the Indian fast bowler will now miss the entire oneday series against West Indies as well as the Test series in Australia that follows it.
Kumar, 25, was initially ruled out of the first three ODIs of the ongoing fivematch series...